JOHN MCCLANE

Creative Coder // Bristol, UK
john@example.com 0117 496 0142 johnmcclane.example.com

Signal

I build interactive installations and generative visuals, mostly in WebGL and GLSL. Over the last 7 years I've shipped 23 commissioned pieces, from gallery walls to a 12-metre LED facade in Cardiff. My shaders have crashed exactly one projector, and I still have the photo.

Runtime // Work

Lead Creative Technologist

Feedback Loop Studio · Bristol
2022–present
  • Built the render engine behind 9 permanent installations, each running unattended for 14+ hours a day with a mean crash rate under 1 per 60 days.
  • Cut shader compile stalls on a 4-screen video wall from 900ms to under 40ms by precompiling variants at install time.
  • Mentor 3 junior coders; all three shipped a solo piece within their first 8 months.

Creative Developer

Hexdump Collective · Bristol / remote
2019–2022
  • Wrote the particle system for a touring audiovisual show seen by roughly 40,000 people across 11 venues.
  • Ported the collective's Processing sketches to a shared WebGL toolkit, reducing per-project setup from 2 days to 3 hours.

Front-end Developer

Bramblewire Agency · Bath
2017–2019
  • Delivered 14 client sites; the two award submissions both placed in regional shortlists.
  • Introduced canvas-based hero animations that lifted average session time on 5 campaign sites by 31%.

Stack // Channels

R · Graphics

GLSL WebGL2 Three.js TouchDesigner openFrameworks

G · Code

TypeScript Rust (wgpu) Python Node.js

B · Hardware

LED matrices Projection mapping MIDI / OSC Raspberry Pi

Boot // Education

BSc Computer Science University of the West of England
2014–2017 · First class · dissertation on real-time datamoshing
Shader School (self-directed) 2018 · 100 days, 100 fragment shaders, all public

Output // Selected

SIGNAL DECAY 2025 · solo show, Arnolfini foyer, Bristol · 6-week run
Packet Loss 2023 · group show, Spike Island · interactive wall, 3 screens
Cardiff Facade Commission 2022 · 12m LED facade, generative weather-driven piece